Example sentences of "might [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might cover any sounds SHe might make . |
| 2 | It might cover secret processes and trade secrets . |
| 3 | Authority might prefer single nurses , but every student nurse I ever met preferred to work under a married senior . |
| 4 | Moreover , he says , Delta 's haemoglobin is guaranteed to be free of the viruses that could contaminate the blood-derived product , and of any residual matter from the blood cells that might trigger allergic reactions in patients . |
| 5 | Should we wonder that they might influence some children to think that the real world is all like that ? |
| 6 | My job was to say a few words that might comfort both groups . |
| 7 | Sir Leon was defending the compromise proposal that emerged at a meeting of the Community 's industry ministers this week , whereby the Commission might grant temporary exemptions to countries facing problems in opening their markets . |
| 8 | Finally , the test items selected are weighted accordingly and used in research contexts to discriminate groups of different degrees of authoritarianism and search for any correlates which might explain such differences . |
| 9 | We once bought underwear at Marks & Spencer , too , but it shrunk quite a bit , which might explain certain aspects of Mrs Thatcher 's personality . |
| 10 | One alternative explanation was put forward in terms of attention focusing which might explain both effects in terms of feelings of risk . |
| 11 | Was it fair to anybody to delay action which might hurt innocent investors ? |
| 12 | He 'd earlier referred to discrepancies in gathering evidence which , while they had no bearing on this case , might affect future prosecutions |
| 13 | Information that enters the company at one point ( for example the complaints department ) must be transmitted to all personnel whose decisions might be affected by it ( for example , the design department ) , and there must also be systems for the collection of information from outside the organisation that might affect future profits . |
| 14 | Not even all Conservative politicians were happy with the implications of the notion of compulsory sales , particularly as they might affect rural areas , and certain safeguards have had to be incorporated . |
| 15 | One might think such recordings would demand competent replay equipment for the listener to appreciate fully these touches of purist engineering — but systems do n't have to be ‘ high-end ’ and costing thousands of pounds to be able to hear a difference . |
| 16 | Now you might think well stags have harem groups and they 've got these enormous antlers and they could bully and er I mean a harem group looks kind of fascist kind of social structure you know when a male dominates female , but in fact field observations of how stags actually deal with their females show that they 're very tender erm towards them and they have to have the cooperation of the female in order to mount . |
| 17 | Charan Athwal , head of the Greenwich Indian Workers Association , felt that some people might think peaceful protests would not solve the problem . |
| 18 | It is just conceivable that the Inland Revenue , thicketed about with legislation and case law , might think these provisions of the Income Tax Acts had some concern for a transaction of that nature , but that is hardly a view which could be shared by one who got out and looked at the wood as a whole . |
| 19 | So you might think few firms would opt for the formal route . |
| 20 | Judgments about this aspect might elicit bi-polar constructs such as ‘ masculine-feminine ’ , savagery-civilization' , ‘ vertical-horizontal ’ , ‘ light-dark ’ , ‘ moving-still ’ . |
| 21 | For example , the speaker might make explicit assumptions which had been left implicit in the original , or have contrasted the lecturer 's position with one with which the hearer is more familiar . |
| 22 | Remove rude jokes and deliberate sexual innuendos , and also watch out for unintended double entendres which might make inebriated members of the audience laugh when you are being serious and sincere . |
| 23 | One of the first rules of house and hall parties had been to scout the building for dark corners that might make useful retiring-places if the evening went well — preference was given to anywhere that had a lock on the inside . |
| 24 | That they might make other choices than the ones we wish them to make ? |
| 25 | In consequence , one might make two predictions . |
| 26 | You said it might make two sheets . |
| 27 | I wonder how many readers realise that new regulations from the Department of Health might make certain foods less available . |
| 28 | One might compare the difficulty with that of trying to write rules for how one might indicate to someone of the opposite sex that one finds them attractive ; while psychologists and biologists might make detailed observations and generalisations about how human beings of a particular culture behave in such a situation , most people would rightly feel that studying these generalisations would be no substitute for practical experience , and that relying on a text-book could lead to hilarious consequences . |
| 29 | The Bank Might Make Direct Loans to its Securities Division |
| 30 | While we all deplore the sale of looted antiquities , it has been suggested recently that some ‘ source ’ nations , those rich in archaeological sites , might make more objects or recent archaeological finds available on loan to museums abroad . |